The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
149 - w/ Jon Ronson "Porn Stars, Psychopaths, Cancel Culture"
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In this Special Dispatch, Michael Moynihan sits down with legendary journalist, author, and documentarian -- Jon Ronson. They discuss some of Ronson's most celebrated books, his fabulous new podcasts exploring the porn industry ("The Butterfly Effect", "The Last Days of August"), and his penchant for pissing off Alex Jones.


Jon Ronson's Books Include:

  • "Them" (2001)

  • "The Men Who Stare at Goats" (2004)

  • "The Psychopath Test" (2011)

  • "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" (2015)


Recorded: July 26th 2019

Published: August 2nd 2019



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The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.